[Sosfbay-discuss] Green Party Voting Positions?
Andrea Dorey
andid at cagreens.org
Tue Nov 22 16:31:31 PST 2005
OK, I stand corrected. I'm glad it lost. Too bad 79 went down with
the rest due to the public anger over the $50+ million cost of this
fiasco.
BTW, don't you love hearing about Arnie's travels i China on taxpayer
expense? Duplicating Baby Bush's travels...
A.
On Nov 8, 2005, at 4:49 PM, TNHarter at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/8/05 1:09:51 PM, cls at truffula.sj.ca.us writes:
>
>
>> Sorry, Andrea, no on 80. "Direct access" is only for huge
>> industrial users. The PUC is corrupt, no better than the
>> legislature, so giving them more power is not an improvement.
>> "Green energy" sounds good, but in power marketing it was
>> a no-effect branding gimmic.
>
> The very fact that it sounded good made it perfect for me.
> I didn't have to carry additional stuff to believe in it. I could
> point out that companies selling sugar water in disposable
> packaging with green on the lable were getting more from
> selling green power than I was. Now people have to buy solar
> cells to get green power. You can still get green stickers from
> me, and they still say the same thing, but you have to use
> your imagination to connect my cause to the electic grid.
>
>> Green Mountain Energy was an Enron brand
>> and buying your power from Enron instead
>> of PG&E didn't erect a single windmill.
>>
>
> Yeah, but there were other brands that really were green power.
> One of them even gave the first TASC talk of the new millenium:
>
> http://tian.greens.org/TASC/TASCleenNGreen.html
>
> Assuming of course you consider the miliinium to have started on
> 1/1/2000. For the rest of us it was about the 25th to last talk of
> the previous millinium. In either case, it was four days after the
> "millenium bug rollover" for computer software. Nice juxtaposition. :-)
>
> --
> Tian
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